Four-car crash on Route 1: At least 1 child sent to hospital

PORTSMOUTH — Four cars collided in the northbound lane of Lafayette Road on Tuesday afternoon, and at least one child was sent to the hospital as a precaution. Traffic was clogged for an hour.

Elizabeth Dinan

PORTSMOUTH — Four cars collided in the northbound lane of Lafayette Road on Tuesday afternoon, and at least one child was sent to the hospital as a precaution. Traffic was clogged for an hour.

An officer radioed police headquarters at about 3:30 p.m. to report he was driving in the area and saw a pair of sport-utility vehicles, both smashed with air bags deployed, in a travel lane of Route 1 in the area of the Port City Car Wash. On further inspection, police learned two more cars were involved.

One of them, a Nissan Altima, was smashed in the front and back, but was driven to the parking lot of a nearby strip mall. The driver sat with her infant and a police officer at a picnic table out front.

Police Lt. Mike Schwartz said nolife-threatening injuries were reported at the scene and two or more of the damaged vehicles were towed. The cause of the crash was still under investigation Tuesday night, and Schwartz said no new information was available.

Dave Choate contributed to this report.

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